Populating a DataSet from multiple Xml files

[DooVoo]

The title says it all really. I'm trying to populate a single DataSet with data from multiple xml files, to create either one DataTable for each xml file i read in. Here's the code:

DataSet ds = new DataSet("myds");ds.ReadXml("somefile.xml");ds.ReadXml("somefile2.xml");

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be working. The first file is read in correctly but the second file doesn't seem to load at all. Does anyone know if this is possible in .NET 1.1? I know that the DataTable type has a ReadXML method in v2 but it's not available in 1.1

[DooVoo]

After some debugging Ive found that it is trying to load the second file, but into the first table rather than creating a new table. Anyone know if there is a way to force ReadXML to create another table?

[DooVoo]

I'm beginning to think posting on this forum is the first step to solving an issue on my own. I can stare at the problem for hours and get no-where, then just by entering the problem here and continuing with my search do i stumble across the information i need. w3schools is now my lucky charm :)So, for those of you who might want to know the answer...When reading in multiple xml files with the same schema (and possible those that can be used to extend the current schema) there is no problem.However, if you are adding multiple xml files with different schemas then you need the DataSet to create a new table for each schema. This is done using one of the overloaded ReadXml(), such as ReadXml(string filename, XmlReadMode mode). By supplying the XmlReadMode you can tell the DataSet what to do when it encounters a schema that doesn't match the first one.To solve my issue I used: DataSet.ReadXml(string filename, XmlReadMode.InferSchema);This causes the DataSet to extend the xml schema in the first table if possible and if not, create a new table with the new schema.Excellent